Started off great but last 2 years not good place to work. - Presentation Manager PetSmart Employee Review

2.0
Sep 7, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great staff, great pets, some good management, good clean stores great customers was great until the last 2 years then too much micro managing and not being set up for sucess, less staff to get the job done well while the bar was being raised to do more.

Cons

Due to the new demands of upper management, store managers style of managing regressed to bulling staff, favourtizim, right of entitlement work style, throwing staff under the bus, not being able to do a good job. A lot of good staff keep quiting while no on deals with the BULLING issue.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

The staff care a lot and try their hardest but it leads to burn out and being taken advantage of by a company the does not care about YOU.

Cons

Poor management. No work life balance. Bad scheduling. Bad pay. No communication. Leads expected to work more than 10 hours a day during high volume periods, Be responsible for too many things. You run around like a chicken with it's head chopped off the whole time you're at work. Staff are snippy, and rude. A few are okay. Company has you working bare bones, and does not care. Pet parent's are weird, and I don't think have realistic expectations that the boarding facility is more like dropping your dog off at a dog shelter for a week while you go on vacation than a "fun time" for your dog. Dogs get fed, watered, pottied. If that is all you care about, then use the PetHotel. If you want your dog to have fun, and be out of a stressful environment (few dogs do well with constant barking and noise all day, plus being stuck in a cement run, thrown in with a bunch of other dogs who have never been properly socialized) just do in home boarding. I would never board my dog at a place like this.

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